Microsoft Teams
Translate Microsoft Teams live into your language
Live translation for Microsoft Teams meetings in the browser. Translated captions without Teams Premium, without an admin and without a bot.
Free to start · Works in your browser · Your audio stays private
Live translation in Teams comes only with Premium
Live translated captions in Teams require Teams Premium (~$10/user/mo). Trippi works without it — a quiet overlay in your browser, free to start.
Live translation in Teams is a Premium feature
Teams shows live captions to everyone, but translating them is part of Teams Premium — an add-on licence of roughly $10 per user per month that your organisation buys and your administrator assigns. Asking for it is a procurement conversation, not a setting.
Trippi skips that path entirely. It captions and translates the call audio in your browser, so the person who needs the translation is the person who turns it on — today, without a ticket to IT.
Teams on the web
Trippi works with Teams opened in a browser tab: teams.microsoft.com for work and school accounts, teams.live.com for personal ones, and the newer teams.cloud.microsoft address. If you normally use the desktop app, open the meeting link in Chrome instead and join from there.
Guest access counts too: joining somebody else’s Teams meeting as an external participant is exactly the case where a translated caption helps most, and it is also the case where you have no chance of getting a Premium licence.
No bot, no admin consent
Meeting-translation services that promise Teams support usually work by adding a bot to the call — which needs tenant admin approval, shows up in the participant list, and often triggers a recording notice. Trippi adds nothing to the meeting: it reads the tab audio locally and draws the translation for you alone.
What you need to start
- A Teams meeting opened in a browser tab rather than the desktop app.
- Any account — work, school, personal, or guest access to somebody else’s tenant.
- No Teams Premium licence and no administrator approval.
- Free to start, so you can try it on a real call.
| What it does | Translates Teams live captions into the language each person picks. |
|---|---|
| Which plan | Teams Premium or a Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on licence. |
| Who gets it | If the meeting organiser has the licence, everyone in the meeting can use it. Otherwise only licensed participants see the Translate to option. |
| What it can’t do | About 33 translation languages, captions are not saved, and in Teams events the organiser preselects the languages and each attendee sees only one of them. |
| How Trippi differs | Trippi translates the audio of the Teams tab in the browser with any licence, with no admin setting and no bot in the meeting. It needs Teams on the web in Chrome or Edge, not the desktop app. |
In short: Teams translates captions only with Teams Premium or Copilot, while Trippi adds translated subtitles to Teams on the web without either licence.
How it works
Add to Chrome
One click from the Chrome Web Store. No account, no install wizard.
Turn it on in your meeting
Open the call in your browser and click the Trippi icon.
Read the translated subtitles
See every sentence in your language, as it's spoken.
Frequently asked questions
Can Teams translate captions without Premium?+
No. Microsoft puts live translated captions in Teams Premium, an add-on licence of about $10 per user per month that an administrator has to assign.
Does it work in the Teams desktop app?+
Not yet — open the meeting in a browser tab instead. Trippi supports teams.microsoft.com, teams.live.com and teams.cloud.microsoft.
Do I need my administrator to approve anything?+
No. Trippi is a browser extension on your machine. It adds no bot and no app to your tenant.
Does it work if I am an external guest?+
Yes. Guest access to another company’s meeting works the same way, and it is the case where a Premium licence is least likely to be available to you.
Keep reading
Guide
How to translate Microsoft Teams meetings in the browser
Live translated captions in Teams need Teams Premium. Here is how to read a Teams call in your language in the browser — free to start, no Premium.
Read every meeting in your language
Add Trippi to Chrome and turn on translated captions in your next call.